Preah Shiva (Wooden Statue)

Standing Shiva

Lord Shiva is a major Hindu deity who continuously dissolves to recreate in the cyclic process of creation, preservation, dissolution and recreation of the universe. He represents the aspect of the Supreme Being and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine.

It took 500 hours for our artisans to carve this piece in wood, 208 hours for plastering and 40 hours for the polychrome process and gilding.